Coping Skills
This skill is taught during TARGET to help you learn how to mentally focus.
What is the SOS?
One might feel this feeling when an adult tells you no.
What is anger/angry?
One might experience this level of stress after moving to another city with their family.
What is moderate?
Spongebob was trying to find this piece of information in the filing center.
What was his name?
Where does your thinking center get information from in times of stress?
This coping skill might involve writing down what you're thinking and how you're feeling onto paper.
What is journaling?
List 3 different things that a person can be triggered by.
What are people, places, smells, noises, dates of the year, time of day, rooms, pictures, object, etc.
One might experience this level of stress after finding out they have a quiz in school the following day.
What is normal?
The Filing center stores information from ________ experiences to help you in the present.
Past
The Thinking Center sends messages to this part of the brain during a stressful event.
Alarm
This coping skill involves slowly taking air in and out of our lungs.
What is deep breathing?
It is this person's responsibility to fix the problem if one person is triggered by another person's behavior.
What is the responsibility of the person that was triggered.
The alarm sends signal to these parts of the brain.
What is the Hippocampus/Filing Center and then prefrontal Cortex/thinking center?
The Filing Center sends messages to this part of the brain during stressful events.
Thinking Center
The Thinking center is located in which part of our brains?
Prefrontal Cortex
This coping skill involves sitting still for an extended period of time, focusing on your breathing, and clearing your mind.
What is meditation?
These are things you might feel in your body that tell you that you might be in survival mode.
What are a hot or red face, rapid heart beat, loss of hearing, clench fists, tight shoulders, upset stomach, clenching the jaw, shaking hands, short of breath/rapid breathing, racing thoughts, or feeling overwhelmed.
One might experience this level of stress after losing a pet or a loved one.
What is extreme?
This is the scientific name for the part of the brain that holds our filing center.
Hippocampus
These types of stressors can make it difficult for our Thinking Center to respond correctly after experiencing normal stress.
What is moderate or extreme stress?
True or False; Coping skills will make you feel 100% better every time you use them.
False
This is what each letter of the SOS stands for.
What is
Slow Down
Orient
Self-Check?
This is the scientific name for the part of our brains that controls the ALARM.
What is the Amygdala?
We call it a "Filing Center" because...
The Thinking Center is where we make __________ and we hear our __________.
Decisions, Inner Voice